Master Gardeners – Middlesex County Cooperative Extension
Shop for a Cause at the 28th Annual Spring Garden Fair and Plant Sale, May 21
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Union County – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
IFNH Partners with Mason Gross to Get Middle School Students Moving with Black Grace Dance Troupe
Dance can improve health through increased physical activity. This may seem like a simple concept, but it is not always obvious. That connection was driven home this month when Rutgers brought a contemporary dance company, Black Grace, to the Greater New Brunswick Charter School. Through a joint program of the Center for Childhood Nutrition Education […]
Growing Up! RCE of Ocean County Implements Vertical Gardens Program
By Steve Yergeau, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent III/Assistant Professor Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, February, 2017. “Jack jumped up and dressed himself and went to the window. And what do you think he saw? Why, the beans he had thrown out of the window into the garden had sprung up into a big beanstalk […]
Balancing act: Teen finds time for love of education, theater and 4-H
Kerri McBride – Burlington County 4-H Players
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Participates in Lake Shoreline Restoration at Middlesex County Park
By Michele Bakacs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension, February 2017 Manalapan Lake in Middlesex County’s Thompson Park received an ecological makeover this past fall when 600 feet of bare shoreline were planted with native plants. This shoreline buffer was established to prevent soil from […]
Using GIS Mapping and Spatial Thinking to Promote Health in the Urban Landscape
With funding from the New Jersey Healthy Community Network, the 3rd Annual Geohealth Workshop, led by David Tulloch, associate director for program development and GIS applications program leader at the Rutgers Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA), is scheduled to get underway at Rutgers this summer. The annual workshop, which […]
$1 Million Gift Launches RU Agribusiness Program
Stephen Komar – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Ask Well: Red Cabbage vs. Blueberries?
Amy Howell – Philip E. Marucci Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension Center
SEBS Students Transforming Blighted Housing into Valued Community Environmental Amenities
By Pat Rector, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor, and Tobiah Horton, Specialist in Landscape Architecture Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension, February 2017 Assistant professor Tobiah Horton is providing Rutgers landscape architecture students in his Design/Build studio a unique opportunity in the Spring 2017 semester. The class is “Transforming Blighted […]
